Tag: 2004DemPrimaryCandidates

Well, and what did Your Humble Blogger learn from all of this? I learned a lot about the various candidates, of course, which was interesting and fun in itself. I learned that it is way way easier to project a…

Reverend Alfred ‘Al’ Sharpton (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Um. Well. He was a tour manager for the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. He is only slightly less qualified than Lincoln was, right? Seriously, he is the head of the…

Joseph I. Lieberman (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Joe Lieberman went to Yale undergraduate and law, then went into the Connecticut Senate. He was Majority Leader of the State Senate there for a while, then ran for Congress and lost. He…

Dennis J. Kucinich (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Dennis Kucinich was a whiz kid, 30 years ago. He was elected to Cleveland’s City Council in 1969, at the age of 23. He ran for Congress (and lost)as a Democrat in 1972,…

John Forbes Kerry (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Senator Kerry is in his fourth term, and before that he was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts for two years. He also was an Assistant DA in Middlesex County (Cambridge, etc.). Oh, and in…

Daniel Robert ‘Bob’ Graham (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Sen. Graham is in his third term in the US Senate, and before that served two terms as Governor of Florida. He got an LLB from Harvard Law School, but does not…

Richard Andrew ‘Dick’ Gephardt (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Yep. Thirteen terms in the US House, and before that six years on the St. Louis city council. Led the Democrats for ten years or so (led them where is a separate…

John Reid Edwards (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Er, well, he’s really quite wealthy… OK, he’s a first-term US Senator with no political experience before that at all. He was a very successful trial lawyer, and made a bundle of money…

Howard Dean (Project Vote Smart) Qualifications: Dr. Dean is a Yalie, but we can’t hold that against him. Seriously, he is qualified in the traditional way, although on fast-forward. A quick rise through the State House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor,…

Carol Moseley Braun (Project Vote Smart) Background: She has quite an impressive background: a JD from UChi is no joke, a few years in a US Attorney’s office, a decade in Chicago’s Assembly (is this like learning politics on…